Get To Know Which Is The Most Comfortable, Here Are 5 Tips For Choosing Clothing Fabrics
Illustration of how to choose a good fabric material (Unsplash/Cam Morin)

JAKARTA – Each clothing fabric has its own character. For example, when choosing a fabric for a dress or overalls, you need to choose something cool and fall in a certain style. Meanwhile, to choose the fabric of the pants, it is necessary to make it absorb sweat. If the rainy season, it is necessary to choose materials that dry quickly.

Comfort may also be judged differently for one person to another. Therefore, you need to choose and identify which fabrics are the most comfortable for certain pieces of clothing or build certain ornaments for a charming appearance. So that you don't choose the wrong one, here are tips that can be used as a reference when choosing clothing fabrics.

1. Breathability

It is important to know the ability of clothing fabrics to absorb air and the flexibility of air exchange. Through the ability to absorb air or known as breathability, comfortable or not clothes can be judged from the material. Types of fabrics that have good breathability include linen, wool, and rayon.

2. Comfortable fabric fiber

The softness of the fabric makes it comfortable to wear. The rougher it feels on the skin, the more comfortable wearing it is questionable. Reported by Collective Gen, Wednesday, November 24, it turns out that this is based on the ability of the skin to breathe and the thickness of the surface of the fabric. Well, the types of fabrics with the most comfortable fibers include cotton, linen, silk, flannel, jersey, satin, chiffon, and rayon.

3. Resistance to wrinkles

How to store fabrics that are easily wrinkled or easily wrinkled, is to hang them. If it is stored and folded in the wardrobe, it is necessary to iron it first to make it look neat. Types of fabrics that don't wrinkle easily include flannel, jersey, wool, denim, chiffon, and nylon.

4. Customize the function

Certain types of fabric are suitable for winter clothing because the fabric has a warming function. Conversely, during the dry season, choose fabrics that are thin and absorb sweat such as cotton, linen, silk, and chiffon. For warm fabrics, choose polyester, nylon, satin, velvet, and flannel types.

5. How to wash

Of course, this type of silk fabric will easily damage the fiber if it is washed in a washing machine. This means, apart from choosing clothing fabrics with comfort, function, and absorption measures, know the right way to wash them.

Besides silk fabrics, the fibers that will be damaged when washed in a washing machine include velvet, chiffon, satin, and leather, both synthetic and natural. In addition to this type of fabric, it can be washed in a washing machine.


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